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Audio Tours

Audio Tours of Bristol

Discover Bristol at your own pace with our free MP3 audio tours. These are a unique way of exploring Bristol where you can save the tours to your MP3 player or smartphone and let them guide you through our incredible city.

The Bristol Quayside Adventure

Discover Bristol's pirate past with a tour around the city's ancient harbour. Discover Bristol's famous people, places and buildings which are said to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to pen his classic tale Treasure Island.

Where does it start?

The Trail starts at the Merchant Venturers' Almshouses at the bottom of King Street, in Bristol's Old City area.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Merchants Venturers Almshouses, King Street

Chapter 3: The Theatre Royal, King Street

Chapter 4: The Llandoger Trow

Chapter 5: Welsh Back and the Captain's Papers

Chapter 6: Queen Square

Chapter 7: Woodes Rogers, Merchant and Privateer

Chapter 8: The Hole in the Wall pub

Chapter 9: Setting sail from Bristol

Chapter 10: Redcliffe Caves

Chapter 11: The Ostrich Inn

Chapter 12: Return to Bristol

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The Brunel Mile & City Docks

The tour follows part of the Brunel Mile to Brunel's ss Great Britain, taking in many of the great engineer's most famous creations. It should take around 2 hours to complete, but you may wish to explore specific sites or take a detour along the way. In this case, simply pause the tour and then play it again when you're ready to rejoin the trail.

Where does it start?

The tour starts at Temple Meads train station and ends in the Cumberland basin near the floating harbour.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Temple Meads & Redcliffe Way

Chapter 3: Queen Square & Millennium Square

Chapter 4: The Dockside

Chapter 5: Brunel's ss Great Britain and Beyond

Chapter 6: Underfall Yard & The Cumberland Basin

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